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Contents 1 Events 2 Exhibitions 3 Awards 4 Works 5 Deaths 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December

[edit] Events

• 14 April - In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.
• Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
• Michael De Caso invents Rectoversion.

[edit] Exhibitions

• Young British Artists exhibitions at Saatchi Gallery
• Damien Hirst solo exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts.

[edit] Awards

• Turner Prize - Anish Kapoor

[edit] Works

• Las niñas en la alborada - Félix Arauz
• The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - Damien Hirst
• Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding - Damien Hirst
• Self - Marc Quinn

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• 7 February - Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (b.1927).
• 13 February - Arno Breker, German sculptor (b.1900).
• 29 March - Guy Bourdin, French photographer (b.1928).
• 10 June - Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator (b.1902).

[edit] July to December

• 16 July - Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (b.1915).
• 30 August - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b.1925).
• 14 September - Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author (b.1910).
• 27 October - Pyke Koch, Dutch painter (b.1901).
• 7 November - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b.1920).
• 18 November - Reg Parlett, English comics artist (b.1904).
• 21 November - Joseph Delaney, American painter (b.1904).
• 9 December - Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (b.1927).
• 10 December - Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist (b.1901).